I'm retired and loving it, doing some research on Lincoln assassanition.

If any one has info on First Cherokee Regiment day books for 1864. My GGgrandfather was Lt.col.
Robert C. Parks and recorded many messages for the period 11/'62 to 3/'63. He died in '64. The Kansas State Historical Society has the Day book for that one period.
Also concerning John W. Booth, I would like an explanation as to how he could grow a long bushy moustache in twelve days?
Gera

Also concerning John W. Booth, I would like an explanation as to how he could grow a long bushy moustache in twelve days?

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Booth usually wore a mustache except in 1864 when he shaved it for an appearance with his two brothers in a benefit performance of Julius Caesar.
law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/booth

If you're talking about the night Mudd helped him....he was wearing stage makeup by the time they got to Mudd's, weren't they?

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Mudd claimed , on his third interrogation, that he didn't recognize Booth because he wore a beard. Even if true, he surely would have have recognized Booth's voice and knew him well enough to see through the alleged beard. Otherwise no stage makeup.

I look forward to your future postings here and in many of the forums here. We're finding; is that some names are shared by other states, same with roads. So, if you will - when you are talking about Arlington, please denote which one-- Arlington, Virginia, Arlington, Texas, etc. Columbia Pike, is another common road term; so it would help to know where this road is--Virginia or elsewhere. That way, we're able to follow your topic/words/comments and observations.

Please know there are no quotas but, certainly want to hear from you.

Post when you feel comfortable in doing so and at your own speed.

No limits on how much you post.

References are wonderful if you have them. It is great to go to the same book, page and read as another poster has; to read all of what that page has to offer. I like official records myself. So, I post all the information I can as to share.

Personal opinions and comments are welcomed also. So, don't feel this forum requires only references as to post comments about. However, I must mention that it does help when it is expressed when a post is a personal opinion or a statement of facts.

You are just in time as there is a new format being 'tweaked' and 'modified' so many of us are feeling our way around this new 'house' per se.

O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXII/2 [S# 33]
Correspondence, Orders, And Returns Relating To Operations In Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, The Indian Territory, And Department Of The Northwest, From January 1 To December 31, 1863.
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.--#5
HDQRS. 8TH AND 9TH DISTS., DEPT. OF THE MISSOURI,
In the Field, Camp John Ross, February 6, 1863.
Major-General CURTIS,
Commanding Department of the Missouri:
SIR: The commands here at Fayetteville post, Fort Blunt (below Maysville), are in good condition. Lieutenant Phillips is at Park Hill, with train of subsistence for refugees. He is expected back to-morrow. Heard from him this morning, all right.

I sent Captain Lucas, Sixth Kansas, toward Cane Hill, with 160 men and one howitzer, to clean out a bushwhacking force that was gathering between that place and Illinois. We have intensely cold weather and snow. I have several parties out to track these bushwhackers up.

Captain Christy, Third Indian Regiment, has just returned from Arkansas River, opposite Fort Smith. In the cane, on this side of the river (in the big bend), there are about 300 half-breeds and whites of the Nation, who have forsaken Stand Watie. They refuse to go south of the river, and do not appear to want to fight, but are, I suspect, afraid of the old feud between them and the full-bloods of the Nation. I think the case is one requiring rather delicate handling, but from which good results may follow.

I learn that General Cooper has left Shelbyville, and is above North Fork, on the Canadian River. He has Scanland's and another Texas battalion, but few Indians. His effective force is small, and he appears to be subsisting.

Another scout, First Lieutenant Fox-Killer, arrived from below last night. Except guerrilla companies of mounted men, from 40 to 200, that prowl about, I do not think there is at the present moment any force above Clarksville. At Webber's Falls, Lieutenant-Colonel Parks has the remnant (all that is left) of Colonel Watie's force. Watie in person is at Briartown.

I have just learned that a "long line of persons," many on foot, are straggling up this way through the snow from the direction of the Creek Nation. They wear on their hats a white badge of cloth, on the right side, the sign agreed upon with McIntosh's men as the one to wear when they come within our camp as friends.

I have sent a train of 25 wagons and some ambulances to Fayetteville, to move the sick and wounded who are sufficiently convalescent (as all are reported to be) to Fort Scott. I deemed it better to reduce the proportions of a hospital in such an advanced position as soon as I could with propriety do so. Shall the sick and wounded of General Herron's command be sent to Springfield or remain at Fayetteville?
With respect, I remain, your obedient servant,
WM. A. PHILLIPS,
Colonel, Commanding.
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By the spring of 1861, Stand Watie (1806-1871), the leader of the southern faction of the Cherokee Nation, was a prosperous attorney and speaker of the nation’s National Council (the lower house of the Cherokee legislature). He owned a plantation and mill at Honey Creek in the Illinois District of the Cherokee Nation.​

1st (Watie’s) Cherokee Mounted Volunteers​

(2nd Cherokee Mounted Volunteers​

[designation changed to 1st Regiment about​

Dec 62, after Drew’s regiment had disbanded],​

Watie’s Regiment Cherokee Mounted Rifles)​

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COLONELS. Stand Watie, promoted Brig Gen 6 May 64; James Madison Bell, promoted and transferred from Lt Col of the 2nd Regt. after Watie became general​

www.kansasmemory.org/item/209316
31, 1863, during which time the author served with the 1st Cherokee Regiment ... During the Civil War, most of the members of the Cherokee Nation who had been removed from ...History of the 19th Kansas Cavalry--Indian War of 1868-69 ...

A semi-official journal covering the period Nov. 10, 1862-Mar. 31, 1863, during which time the author served with the 1st Cherokee Regiment (Confederate) in the Indian Territory under Colonel Stand Watie. It contains copies of general & local orders, movements of the unit, and events. Portions of the first few pages are missing. During the Civil War, most of the members of the Cherokee Nation who had been removed from Georgia to Oklahoma under the treaty of 1835 allied themselves with the Confederacy. The 1st Cherokee Regiment was organized in 1861. Robert Calvin Parks was a captain in Company B at the time he kept this day book. The regiment played an important role in several battles along the border of Indian Territory. References are made to Clara, Robert's wife; Sterling Price Parks, their son; Thomas J. (Jeff) Parks, Robert's brother; Aunt Susan Taylor, the wife of Richard Taylor, Robert's uncle & his mother's brother; the Riders & Albertys, relatives of Clara; and James Butler, husband of Robert's cousin and the man who shot & killed Robert.
Creator: Parks, Robert Calvin, d. 1864
Date: November 10, 1862-March 31, 1863

If any one has info on First Cherokee Regiment day books for 1864. My GGgrandfather was Lt.col.
Robert C. Parks and recorded many messages for the period 11/'62 to 3/'63. He died in '64. The Kansas State Historical Society has the Day book for that one period.
Also concerning John W. Booth, I would like an explanation as to how he could grow a long bushy moustache in twelve days?
Gera

I have read several books about the Lincoln murder. When I read something that grabs my attention I try to find another source to verify the statement.
I found four different sources that say the body had a moustache at the time he was identified as John
W. Booth. Dr.Mudd testified / or stated that Booth borrowed his razor and shaved his moustache off, 4/15 '65.
1. The Garrets was introduced to a man named named Boyd. Booth or Boyd, he had a moustache.
Richard Garrett, "a heavy dark moustache covered his mouth,"
Kate Garrett, "the stranger had a moustache, ... introduced as James W. Boyd"
2. The soldiers were shown a picture of Booth which had a moustache while the hunt was on. They did not know at that time he had shaven it off. Andrew Potter, "discovered Baker with a body (headed back to Washington) what had a moustache"
3. One of the detectives went to the photographer's dark room while the picture of the man (Booth) was being developed.
He took the negative and picture to the War Department. He said that he recognmized Booth because of his moustache.
Detective James A. Wardell, "the moustache was shaggy and dirty," he did not know abojut the razor!
The time period was some 12 days after Booth had shaved his moustache off, 4/26 '65.
Gera

Welcome Gera. If all goes according to Hoyle I will be retiring in July. I look forward to doing alot more Civil War research when I retire. The internet has changed everything regarding research and the world is literally at one's fingertips from the comfort of home. This website is a great source of information and advise from many knowledgable folks. Just look at what you have gotten from M.E Wolf! BTW, I am doing research on Ft. Delaware for a Civil War Roundtable presentation I am planning to make. I visited there in 2006 while researching the letters of my g-g grandfather William B. Phillips who was there for 3 months in 1862 and became fascinated with the place. So, if anyone has info on Ft. Delaware I'd love to hear from you.

I have read several books about the Lincoln murder. When I read something that grabs my attention I try to find another source to verify the statement.
I found four different sources that say the body had a moustache at the time he was identified as John
W. Booth. Dr.Mudd testified / or stated that Booth borrowed his razor and shaved his moustache off, 4/15 '65.
1. The Garrets was introduced to a man named named Boyd. Booth or Boyd, he had a moustache.
Richard Garrett, "a heavy dark moustache covered his mouth,"
Kate Garrett, "the stranger had a moustache, ... introduced as James W. Boyd"
2. The soldiers were shown a picture of Booth which had a moustache while the hunt was on. They did not know at that time he had shaven it off. Andrew Potter, "discovered Baker with a body (headed back to Washington) what had a moustache"
3. One of the detectives went to the photographer's dark room while the picture of the man (Booth) was being developed.
He took the negative and picture to the War Department. He said that he recognmized Booth because of his moustache.
Detective James A. Wardell, "the moustache was shaggy and dirty," he did not know abojut the razor!
The time period was some 12 days after Booth had shaved his moustache off, 4/26 '65.
Gera

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I would like a source on his shaving. I, too, have read several books on the event and visited Mudd's house a number of times. This is first I heard of him shaving off his mustache.